Hi Spinyfriend
Well said about the water – vitally important for hogs and best left available all day every day.
It’s always a worry when hogs disappear, but as you will have read they often do and then return again. There are many potential reasons.
Regarding the question of slugs. It is mostly the small and medium sized slugs that hogs eat. As you say, those big ones, they normally just ignore. But it is apparently the small ones which do the most damage to vegetables, etc., so that’s good. You would be unlikely to see a hog eating those tiny slugs from night cam video (i.e. differentiate a tiny slug from an insect and also the slugs that eat plants would be less likely to be found around hog feeding stations where cameras are often aimed), but they do eat the slightly bigger ones as well. It may depend a bit on hog’s personal preferences.
Fingers crossed some hogs return again soon.
